Preface

Welcome to the Visual Basic® 2012 computer programming language and the world of Microsoft® Windows® and Internet and web programming with Microsoft’s .NET platform. Please read the book’s back cover and inside back cover—these concisely capture the book’s essence. In this Preface we provide more details.

This book is appropriate for information technology and business students in novice-level and intermediate-level Visual Basic courses. The book is also used by professional programmers.

At the heart of the book is the Deitel signature live-code approach—rather than using code snippets, we present concepts in the context of complete working programs followed by sample executions. Read the Before You Begin section after this Preface for ...

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